doomsday_disco
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How does this one have no reviews!? My bitch ass thought I ordered this last year, but it turns out I didn't when I went looking for it when wearing some cucumber scents last month -- apparently, I was holding off until I would definitely start using it during the warmer months, and then forgot. Anyway, this is the perfect cucumber hair gloss. It really does smell like fresh cucumber, and it has good staying power. I can smell it in my wet hair (a lot of hair glosses quickly disappear when I apply it to wet hair) and still smell it in my dry hair after a full day of wear. When it is freshly applied, I can smell it without holding my hair up to my nose, but after that, I have to hold my hair up to my nose in order to smell it. I've paired it with cucumber scents like Rendezvous at the Bath (which I'm almost out of ) and Squirting Cucumber, but it also pairs well with melon scents. This one is a keeper for sure, and I'm glad it is in the general catalog.
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I tried this on wet hair, dry hair, and also on a paper towel. This is a mix of both candy-like raspberry and tart raspberry, with it being more like raspberry candy in my hair, but I get more of the tart, fresh fruit raspberry nuances from the sprays I did on a paper towel. There's something incense-y that I can smell in the bottle and when this is freshly sprayed on a paper towel, like there might be some champaca representing those thorns, but fortunately, I never detected that in my hair at all. On me, this isn't a strong hair gloss -- I could only smell it whenever I held my hair up to my nose, and the scent usually lasted half the day. I'll be keeping this around to pair with all of my raspberry scents.
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A sticky-sweet love letter to the stranger (coworker? lifelong friend?) who’s been sleeping in your bed: candy cigarettes and root beer barrels.
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Levatio is definitely an effective calming scent, although I would say that it is better at making you calm enough to lie down and rest, but I'm not sure I would use it as a sleep scent since the tangerine in this is such a powerhouse. It's the strongest note throughout wear, and it is pith-y. This is a TAL, so its scent shouldn't really be judged anyway, but don't let the scent in the bottle deter you from using this. It smells a little scary, and I think it's the way the ylang ylang shouts over the other notes, but fortunately, it is not a main player on my skin. The fennel note is somewhat black licorice-y without being full-on black licorice-y like anise is, and it also calms down after the wet stage of the scent. The tangerine and lavender end up being stars of the show early on, but this morphs and is more about the tangerine and patchouli by the end of the day. I didn't get the cedar on my skin, and could not pick out any of the wild carrot. Wearing this immediately put me at ease, so I definitely recommend this TAL for its purpose. And if you're a fan of tangerine, you will probably like this, too.
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I received a tester of this with my decant order. On Buying and Selling starts off with the golden apple being the strongest note on me (huzzah!), with touches of the other fruits. I don't generally like fig (the only scent I love featuring a fig note is A Moment in Time), but it is pretty well-behaved here and never takes over even though it's normally a force to be reckoned with on my skin. I get a little waxy sweetness from the dates, just a tiny bit of pomegranate, and once the apple calms down, it's actually the apricot that ends up being the dominant note by the end of the day. I never get any of the frankincense smoke from this... just the fruits. I like this more than I thought I would based off of the notes! I think those yearning for an autumnal scent that doesn't involve pumpkin or spices should give this one a try. It would be perfect to wear during late summer/early fall.
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Note: I have not tried the original released scent. This one is hella boozy. I was immediately reminded of the tequila shot my family made me do at a birthday party a few weeks ago. I do think it gets more wine-like as it settles, but it does still smell very boozy to me. At the end of the day, I get something that smells like jello behind the booze (I'm guessing that's the jelly, but it smells so jello-like that it immediately made me think of the jiggly texture of jello). I am glad I am not getting any peanut butter like some reviewers, or the dread artificial grape! While this isn't something I could see myself reaching for, it was fun to get to try it.
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This one has great staying power and hella throw! At first, it is mostly about the wonderful black clove backed by some goat's milk that doesn't go funky on me (woot), but over time, the milk overtakes the clove, so that it winds up being a creamy goat's milk-dominant scent with just a hint of clove in the background. I could still smell this on my hand the next morning when I went to take a shower, but by then it was all milk. I have been weary of milky scents as of late, but this one is pretty nice! I think I'll hang onto my decant.
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I grabbed a decant of this after the rave reviews from those who tried it at Dragoncon. I'm not familiar with the scent of the actual flower and don't generally wear straight-up florals. I've tested this a few times, and it's just not for me. I do think it smells white and purple, and is heady, sweet, and somehow sharp as well. There's a grape-like undertone to this that became evident to me after I layered it with 13 March 2020 (the 13 containing ALL THE SUGARS), because then it reminded me of the awful grape-like sugar I get whenever I've happened to order a drink from what ends up being a bad boba tea place. And then I could smell it in the single note itself. The single note ends up being somewhat powdery on me by the end of the day, but it still retains that undertone to it. I always tell myself that if I don't like a floral single note layered with 13 March 2020, it is not for me, so this decant is headed to the destash pile.
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A fable in scent: bone-white sandalwood aged with beeswax and balsam, crushed grass and juniper berries, ambrette seed, and lupine musk.
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White Lilac and Moss.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears. Violet water and plum juice with wormwood accord, pungent tagetes, and dry, bitter, wholesome green tea.
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Don’t let him know she liked cream best, For this tea must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me. White chocolate filled with black tea and cream, splooged with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla.
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White and red roses, a blood-touched thorn, and a sprig of myrtle. José de Madrazo y Agudo
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A fuzzy black scent flittering in bittersweet shadows: 11-year aged patchouli, dried blackcurrant, wooly tonka bean, tobacco absolute, toasted vetiver, and a sprinkling of sugar crystals.
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A briny ballad sung by crustacean troubadour: salt-crusted red currant and driftwood strumming cheery chords of ambergris, orange blossom, and bubbly bergamot-squeezed pink grapefruit. Brynolf Wennerberg
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Melancholic white rose petals drifting in a pool of white musk, bitter almond, and icy vanilla. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.
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Chocolate, chocolate, every where, And marshmallows too, I think; Chocolate, Chocolate every where, Nor any drop to drink. White chocolate froth and marshmallow fluff cresting on an ocean wave. Don’t drink it!
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The essence of grit and obstinance distilled into 5ml of pure oil: crumbly kiln-fired clay and a hint of sand.
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White Pumpkin and Bergamot.
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An unexpected collision between BPAL’s Sea Foams Milk and Sea Foams Blood, but sans Sea.
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Rust, dirt, and a half-eaten chocolate bar. Unused prototype for a television promo.
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Aomono sakana gunzei ô-kassen no zu: a chaotic clash of peppers, komatsuna, kabu, and daikon splashed by salt water and kelp with a dash of wasabi. Utagawa Hirokage
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Tomato fruit and leaf, a skritch of soil, spicy geranium petals, orange blossom, marigold, and sultry musk. Takahashi Shōtei
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This features a sharp, polished black leather note, the sharp orange blossom/neroli-infused vegetal dead leaves accord from the brick, and a cotton note that starts off as a background player, but eventually pushes its way through to become the dominant note in the scent. It's also somewhat sharp and laundry-esque at first, but it eventually does settle into a soft cotton scent. I didn't get a decant of this one, but I was frimped a tester of this with the rest of the brick decants that I ordered, so that's why I was able to try the entire collection. Although this isn't in my wheelhouse (too sharp for me -- I need some sweetness with my leather scents), I'm glad that I got a chance to try it!
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Above is my review of the 2013 version, and last night, I deathmatched my friend's bottle of the 2007 release with the 2024 release (that I ordered early on in 2025). The 2007 version is like the 2013 version: like hot cocoa sweetened with brown sugar, accompanied by a little bit of coffee, and some tame cinnamon. It is glorious. The 2024 release is really different from those two, and it's not due to age because I reviewed the 2013 version when it was new. My bottle from the 2024 Yule Collection goes on with a blast of dark coffee. I thought it was coffee beans instead of actual coffee, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, the scent is very strongly coffee during the wet phase of the scent and stays that way for the first few hours of wear, with the hot cocoa, cinnamon, and brown sugar lingering in the background. Those notes end up gaining some strength and become more noticeable by hour number four, but it never ended up smelling as strong or as delicious as the El Dia de los Reyes that I'm used to... it's just not as hot cocoa-y and not as cinnamony or sweet. I think even the atmo that came out in the release is heavier on the hot cocoa than this scent is, but I'll have to retest and review it later this week to be sure. And I'm not saying this is bad or anything, because it's still really nice, but the ratio of notes is just really different. I'm curious to see if it will age into something more akin to the 2007 or 2013 versions, or if this batch is just particularly coffee-heavy. I'm going to tuck my bottle away to age. ETA: The atmo is heavier on the cocoa than the perfume oil, but still has more coffee than the 2007 and 2013 versions. It settles into something similar to the older versions, so I have hope the perfume oil will as well, with time.